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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 2h

Compliance have some comments

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 17h

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 1d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 18h

Ahhhh congratulations!

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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 1d

Now the programme for World Fantasy 2026 is up, here's more info about the British & Irish Folk panel on Thurs oct 30th:
worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/br...

RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 3d

Hello! I'll be chatting with @eidyngray.scot about my books and the folklore that inspires me at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. I'm attending all weekend, so if you spot me feel free to come say hello 👋

A deliciously gothic graphic sharing the details of Rhiannon's appearance at World Fantasy Con. She's on the British and Irish Folk panel on Thursday, October 30th at 6pm.

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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 23h

My big idea for selling more books is a scholastic-style book fair but for office blocks and workplaces. Send round the catalogue in advance. Visit a few weeks later and set up ready for folks' lunch break. Of course, I have no idea what the cost of all this would be, but it would be rad as hell.

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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 23h

I've been in enough marketing brainstorms to spot an experiential stunt when I see one. This is designed to grab headlines on the gamble that the raised awareness will net a few more sales. I'd be interested to see the ROI numbers on this one.

Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 1d

I want everyone to the think of the poor production teams having to act on increasingly unhinged requests. They didn't ask for this. They don't deserve this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A book is being marketed with mayo-scented ink. Jealous? Me? | David Barnett

With the rise of TikTok and two-tier marketing budgets, something’s off in the world of publishing (and it’s not just the aroma), says author David Barnett

www.theguardian.com

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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 1d

Now the programme for World Fantasy 2026 is up, here's more info about the British & Irish Folk panel on Thurs oct 30th:
worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/br...

RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 3d

Hello! I'll be chatting with @eidyngray.scot about my books and the folklore that inspires me at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. I'm attending all weekend, so if you spot me feel free to come say hello 👋

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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 1d

It is a very tense watch. Inventive and full of lovely shots of a very good boy. Worth a watch just to see a horror film shot at a dog's eye level.

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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 1d

The title is fitting

a woman is holding a puppy in her arms and says i 've only had arto for a day and a half

ALT: a woman is holding a puppy in her arms and says i 've only had arto for a day and a half

media.tenor.com

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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 1d

Now seated for GOOD BOY (2025)

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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 1d

That's so wholesome😭

RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 1d

Me!

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World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · 1d

The Programme for World Fantasy 2026 is now live!

worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/

Programme – World Fantasy Convention 2025

worldfantasy2025.co.uk

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Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social · 2d

Niiiiiiiiice

Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 2d

Debenhams is selling idols of Pazuzu, in case you were wondering what stage of late capitalism we’re in…

Pazuzu idol pendant for sale at Debenhams

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 3d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly! Talk about killing the golden goose.

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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 3d

Hello! I'll be chatting with @eidyngray.scot about my books and the folklore that inspires me at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. I'm attending all weekend, so if you spot me feel free to come say hello 👋

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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 3d

It took me waaaaay too long to find the term "chimney breast" today. I remember the days when I could have googled, "What's the sticky-out bit above a fireplace called?" and the correct answer would have been on the first page of results.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 3d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 3d

Hello! I'll be chatting with @eidyngray.scot about my books and the folklore that inspires me at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. I'm attending all weekend, so if you spot me feel free to come say hello 👋

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 5d

If you like dark folklore you must check out @samkhorton.bsky.social's Gorse and its sequel Ragwort, which is out today!

Gorgeous inside and out, it's a haunting tale of love, madness, loss, and mysterious secrets, set in Cornwall amid the clash of Enlightenment with the old magical ways

💙📚🪐

A banner from Solaris with a picture of the book and a quote from Lorraine Wilson reading "brimming with love for the wild places, for the folklore and for the fallibility and generosity of the human heart. Horton is a storyteller outside of time, I suspect he may be fae"

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 4d

📚 🧡 MY BIGGEST DREAM COME TRUE 📚 🧡

My debut novel, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, will be out in 2027!

Publishers Marketplace, Z. K. Abraham's My Darling Clementine, in which a Black queer woman, who, feeling lost in teh depths of an unhappy marriage, leaves it all behind, only to lose herself completely-and beyond human recognition-to a new love, to Makayla Tabron at Amistad, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2027, by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary Agency (world English). Translation: Taryn Fagerness Agency

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RhiARGHnnon GriZZLY @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 4d

Edits update: I *think* I've finished adding new stuff to the book. Now we're into the crunchy in-the-text edits. I already did a quick pass working on all the "easy" suggestions to help me get back into the story. Now I'm tackling all the trickier ones. In short, progress is good.

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